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	Obituary - Sir Nigel Bagnall KCB GCB CVO MC and BAR
		Field Marshal Sir Nigel Bagnall began his career as an infantryman in the Malaysian jungle, spent his middle years trying to make military sense of Nato's nuclear-dominated strategy on the north German plain, and ended up a Whitehall warrior who fell foul of Margaret Thatcher.
		Bagnall held that soldiers will take tough criticism if they respect their commander and know that he is genuinely concerned for their welfare.
		It fell to Bagnall eventually to persuade them of a fact their predecessors would easily have understood - that a static defensive line along the Iron Curtain was not good enough.
	www.bagnallvillage.com /Biographies/SirNigelBagnall.htm (1630 words)

	Telegraph \| News \| Field Marshal Sir Nigel Bagnall
		The son of an officer in the Green Howards, Nigel Thomas Bagnall was born in India on February 10 1927 and educated at Wellington.
		Bagnall was finally Chief of General Staff for three years until his retirement in 1988 with the rank of Field Marshal.
		Bagnall was appointed CVO in 1978, KCB in 1981, and GCB in 1985.
	www.telegraph.co.uk /news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2002/04/10/db1001.xml (1374 words)

	Guardian \| Field Marshal Sir Nigel Bagnall
		Field Marshal Sir Nigel Bagnall, who has died aged 75, began his career as an infantryman in the Malaysian jungle, spent his middle years trying to make military sense of Nato's nuclear-dominated strategy on the north German plain, and ended up a Whitehall warrior who fell foul of Margaret Thatcher.
		Bagnall was born in India and educated at Wellington.
		In 1988, therefore, Bagnall retired from the army (though field marshals are never supposed to retire), to spend his time studying military history, writing about it, and breeding ducks.
	www.guardian.co.uk /print/0,3858,4391565-103684,00.html (856 words)

	The Green Howards Friends Website, - Obituaries
		Nigel was a natural soldier, who had never wanted to be anything else, and he became a very great one.
		I feel sure that Nigel did not think that, or not exactly that anyway; but what he did know was that his own self-confidence was soundly based on the study and analysis of the lessons of the past, and he applied the rigorously tested product of that process to the job in hand.
		By comparison, Nigel's years as CGS were perhaps more in the nature of a holding operation, by a principled Chief who was a resolute opponent and expose of any perceived tendency to overstretch the Army or to fudge unattractive realities.
	www.greenhowards.org.uk /html-files/obituaries/obituaries-past-b.htm (8216 words)

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